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An instrument for measuring shells, or the angle of their spire.

The art of measuring shells or their curves; conchyliometry.

Of or pertaining to shells; resembling a shell; as, conchyliaceous impressions. Kirwan.

See Conchologist, and Conchology.

Same as Conchometry.

Conchylaceous.

The person who weighs and proportions the materials to be made into glass, and who works and tempers them.

One who keeps the entrance to an edifice, public or private; a doorkeeper; a janitor, male or female.

The office or lodge of a concierge or janitor.

A small or private assembly, especially of an ecclesiastical nature. [Obs.] Bacon.

An obscure ecclesiastical council; a conciliable. Milman.

Of or pertaining to, or issued by, a council. Jer. Taylor.

te; to appease. The rapacity of his father's administration had excited such universal discontent, that it was found expedient to conciliate the nation. Hallam.

The act or process of conciliating; the state of being conciliated. The house has gone further; it has declared conciliation admissible previous to any submission on the part of America. Burke.

Conciliatory. Coleridge.

One who conciliates.

Tending to conciliate; pacific; mollifying; propitiating. The only alternative, therefore, was to have recourse to the conciliatory policy. Prescott.

To place fitly together; to adapt; to clear. [Obs.] Holland.

utual adaptation of parts; elegance; -- used chiefly of style of discourse. [R.] An exact concinnity and eveness of fancy. Howell.

Characterized by concinnity; neat; elegant. [R.] The most concinnous and most rotund of proffessors, M. Heyne. De Quiency.